Ferroelectric Nanomaterials for Energy Scavenging and Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

Ferroelectric materials are a promising candidate for energy scavenging and sensors because they exhibit piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and photovoltaic properties simultaneously. These multiple physical properties can play roles in mechanical, thermal energy and solar energy harvesting and vibration, strain, temperature, and light sensing. As nanotechnology continues to develop, ferroelectric nanomaterials with subtle nanostructures have aroused a substantial amount of attention and been applied to enhance the output performance of energy-harvesting and sensing devices.

A lot of progress has been made in the synthesis and application of ferroelectric nanomaterials in recent years. Ferroelectric nanomaterials with nanowires, nanoribbons, nanopores, thin films, and the arrays of nano units have been reported. These ferroelectric nanomaterials show excellent energy conversion capability and sensing performance due to their large specific surface area, unique polarization property, strain condition, and so on. However, efforts still need to be devoted to this field to enhance the performance and broaden the applications of ferroelectric nanomaterials. Therefore, we invite papers on ferroelectric nanomaterials including but not limited to following topics:

• Ferroelectric materials with novel nanostructures;
• Ferroelectric nanomaterials with high energy conversion efficiency;
• Ferroelectric nanomaterials with sensitive and quick sensing for mechanical, temperature, and light stimulus;
• Investigating theories on the energy conversion of ferroelectric materials.

This Special Issue of Nanomaterials focuses on the synthesis of ferroelectric nanomaterials and their applications in energy scavenging and sensors. We look forward to you sharing your ideas and recent progress with your papers in this field.

Prof. Dr. Ya Yang
Guest Editor

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